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  1. Re:Good on Trump Team Considers Nationalizing America's 5G Network (axios.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Don't worry, the spy networks will be baked in from the get go.
    Of course, they're going to be there even if the government doesn't run the 5g, so it's not like trusting them is an issue. Just expect them to be spying. At least it'll cut down on the corporations doing it, the government usually doesn't like people trying to compete with it directly.

    Though if the government is doing the 5g, US hardware for it will be highly unpopular in other countries. They'll automatically assume it's got spyware in it if the government has a hand in it.

  2. Re:I'm German, and ... on Trump Team Considers Nationalizing America's 5G Network (axios.com) · · Score: 2

    Sure, it's normal for the government to not be profit motivated, but trump is, and I suspect anything he does because of it. He's abusing the country in several ways that already, so why should we not suspect this move as well?

  3. Re:Good idea, actually on Now Even YouTube Serves Ads With CPU-draining Cryptocurrency Miners (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    What makes you think they all unload when you leave that site?
    There are lots of them that just keep running and eating up your resources even when you want to use them.
    That's the problem with people secretly sticking their hands in your pocket, you have no idea how much they're going to take or how long they'll be doing it.
    The very fact that they hid this from you is ALWAYS a bad sign.

  4. Re:Obsolete after three years? on Why Most Electric Cars Are Leased, Not Owned (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Appleburg

  5. Obvious flaw on Why Most Electric Cars Are Leased, Not Owned (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    When I looked into electric and hybrid cars a few years ago, most of them could ONLY be leased.
    I don't know if that still holds, but it would set both a trend and expectations, so attempts to analyse customer preference based on owned/leased would be unfairly bent towards lease. It would be far more accurate to actually ask people with those vehicles if they'd rather own or lease the it if they had the choice.

  6. Re:He's going to go 60 miles up... on Flat Earther Now Wants To Launch His Homemade Rocket From a Balloon (themaineedge.com) · · Score: 1

    I enjoyed that episode.

  7. Re:Space is fake. Earth is flat. Eclipses prove it on Flat Earther Now Wants To Launch His Homemade Rocket From a Balloon (themaineedge.com) · · Score: 1

    1 - The sunlight DOES pass through more atmosphere in the summer. Take some geometry classes.

    2 - If your hard drive is vibrating that badly, something is out of balance. The rest of your assumptions and innuendo in that section are not relevant.

    3 - Your playing with gyroscopes isn't the same as a planet in orbit, or pretty much anything in orbit, but I'm not going to take the time to educate you on this especially since you put it in a section that supposed to be on eclipses.

    4 - You've never been to a Solar Observatory either I see. No, the Corona never moves faster than the speed of light, any movement of portions of the suns Corona is SIGNIFICANTLY BELOW the speed of light. How the heck do you think we can identify when a Coronal discharge will hit earth by observation? We don't some kind of sci-fi superluminal telescopes!
    And no, the sun and the moon are in no way the same size. Parallax measurements have verified that without any doubt by anyone who knows at least high school level math/geometry/physics.
    There are NO observatories on the dark side of the moon (it's not dark because there's no light, it's "dark" because it can't be seen from Earth), though we have had probes and manned missions orbit the moon and send back the pictures of it. Now if you mean we can see protuberances of the solar corona beyond the edges of the moon during a full solar eclipse, well that is correct! That's because the moon isn't completely smooth, the disk of the sun is far enough away that it can be completely blocked by the moon, but it's atmosphere, the corona, is large enough to peek out from behind it like a guy with a beer belly turning sideways to hide behind a tree that's not wide enough. As to it not being smooth either, well duh! The sun was once thought to be a perfect structure of divine essence, then we developed methods to see past it's bright glare and learn the truth. It's a seething turbulent mass. So of course the corona isn't some nice smooth thing. Heck, it's magnetic field has enough loops and twists it could be the manifestation of a knitters nightmare! And with the corona being plasma, it's able to be manipulated by those magnetic fields. Anyway, this is more time trying to educate a willfully ignorant fool that I should be spending. NEXT!

    5 - Wow, more eclipses huh? Neither the Earth nor Luna are perfect spheres, not even close, or hadn't you noticed the mountains and other such discrepancies?
    Color changes are due to the passing of the light through the EARTHS atmosphere as well as the particles in it. At different angles you get different frequencies due to the scattering. Sorry the cameras used by the filmer suck worse than human eyes which are easily fooled by changing light levels.
    Sorry you don't understand how when circling another object an object has to rotate to maintain facing that same object, so yeah, the moon has rotation, stop being so ignorant. In fact, the rotation doesn't keep it exactly facing the earth because the orbit isn't perfectly circular, though it is still orbit locked. (Look up orbit locked if you still don't get that the moon is rotating, or go to an FPS forum and ask about circle strafing which is the same basic idea.) Because of this slight mismatch we can actually see about 59% of the total surface of the moon with the naked eye over the period of an orbit. That time is almost a month, or a bit more accurately, is a lunar month. If you want more accuracy than that, grab an encyclopedia, you need to read a set badly.
    Craters do tend to be round, just look at the ones on the Earth made by meteorites, and even the artificial ones we made by slamming high speed objects into the ground, accidentally and intentionally. The only time they aren't "round" is when they are more oval and stretched out in one axis. Those are caused by things hitting at a more horizontal angle, and yes, they exist on the moon too, but do to the way orbital mechanics, gravity, and the resultant impacts end up working out, they rarely strike at that kind of angle.

  8. Re:This guy is a grifter on Flat Earther Now Wants To Launch His Homemade Rocket From a Balloon (themaineedge.com) · · Score: 2

    You know, that hypothesis holds a lot more water than his stated one about a flat earth does...

  9. Re:Fundraising link? on Flat Earther Now Wants To Launch His Homemade Rocket From a Balloon (themaineedge.com) · · Score: 1

    I'd say people have been independently verifying the shape and structure of the Earth by various means for a bit over 3000 years, and in the last half century or so in high resolution astroselfies as well :)

  10. Re:Maybe it's enough? on Flat Earther Now Wants To Launch His Homemade Rocket From a Balloon (themaineedge.com) · · Score: 1

    I guess everyone needs something to laugh at.

  11. I wonder if he's just trying to break the record for the most intricate and involved Darwin Award qualification.

  12. Re:I once saw a proof it was flat on Flat Earther Now Wants To Launch His Homemade Rocket From a Balloon (themaineedge.com) · · Score: 2

    I've seen a hypothesis that our universe is a 3d hologram essentially projected from a 2d source on a brane, (Yes, I spelled "brane" correctly, go look it up.)
    Of course, we have no idea if that's true or not, or if branes actually exist either. But even if the source of the universe is 2d, that doesn't mean the earth is "flat" in our perception of the universe.

  13. Re: Trump has a new director of NASA? on Flat Earther Now Wants To Launch His Homemade Rocket From a Balloon (themaineedge.com) · · Score: 1

    Not that I recall, not even close. Reagan was more like Obama than trump. Sure, he wasn't much like Obama at all, but then he's even less like trump other than the party he ran as.

  14. Re:If the Earth is flat, how can there be a center on Flat Earther Now Wants To Launch His Homemade Rocket From a Balloon (themaineedge.com) · · Score: 1

    Same off topic troll on a second post of the same spam

  15. ... or even toasters, especially talking ones ...

  16. Re:NN's Ultimate Purpose on Germany Preparing Law for Backdoors in Any Type of Modern Device (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    There's what should be and is written in law, and then there is what they actually do because who's going to arrest the cops...

  17. Re:Has anybody told them they're idiots? on Germany Preparing Law for Backdoors in Any Type of Modern Device (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Never underestimate the influence and reach of stupid people in power

  18. Bet trump will tweet about how he loves this idea, assuming he didn't already do so

  19. Re:if I were GeegawCo, I'd pull out on Germany Preparing Law for Backdoors in Any Type of Modern Device (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Companies rarely if ever care about public interest. On the other hand knowing that if they were making gimped "security" in their devices, they should know their worldwide sales would plummet like a lead brick! No company with any brains would do this, even if it means cutting off all sales in Germany. The losses would just be too big otherwise.

  20. Being government mandated, it'll have to be usable by the dumbest of bureaucrats, so a hairpin would probably work.

  21. Re: Define on Germany Preparing Law for Backdoors in Any Type of Modern Device (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    NOBODY in security EVER thinks a backdoor is a good thing!
    They are a MASSIVE vulnerability just waiting to get cracked, and if they are mandatory, all it takes is a single slip and that entire group is totally unprotected!
    It's not a question of IF it will be used and abused, but simply WHEN

    Sorry for the caps, but I really wanted to highlight those specific words to get across the point to some of the readers.

  22. Re:No desperate, just hacked the FCC w anti NN bot on FCC Won't Delay Vote, Says Net Neutrality Supporters Are 'Desperate' (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    You really ought to lay off the Koolaid, because right now they got you hook, line, and sinker

  23. Re:No desperate, just hacked the FCC w anti NN bot on FCC Won't Delay Vote, Says Net Neutrality Supporters Are 'Desperate' (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Duh! Trump assigned him there so he could destroy the FCC.

  24. If pai were to "restore racial freedom", he'd start by eliminating the Emancipation Proclamation and the 13th Amendment
    He'd probably also have shares in a side business selling shackles as well

  25. Re:Idjit Pie needs to go on FCC Won't Delay Vote, Says Net Neutrality Supporters Are 'Desperate' (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Preferably with dildos made from lit dynamite, but I'm not sure Acme would deliver to him